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Supposedly amendments were made to the charter of the Municipal Council of the Liteiny District in St.Petersburg so that to prevent of a deputy from Yabloko be elected as head of the council. According to the new charter, now it is possible to elect head of the municipal council with by two-thirds of the votes, although earlier he/she could be elected by a simple majority. Yabloko received 11 of the 20 mandates in the 8 September elections in this municipality, so had good chances that head of the council would be elected from Yabloko deputies.
The municipal council of the sixth convocation of the Vladimirsky municipal district of St.Ptersburg elected Yabloko’s Denis Tikhonenko head of municipal district on its first meeting on the evening of 20 September, 11 of the 19 municipal deputies present at the meeting voted for his candidacy.
The Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma unanimously elected Maxim Kruglov as its leader.
Sergei Mitrokhin, who led the party’s faction in the Moscow City Duma of the fourth convocation (2005-2009), recused himself. Mitrokhin explained this step by the desire to maintain solidarity within the new faction, as well as to enable the young deputy to realise his potential.
The Bureau of the Pskov Regional Branch of the Yabloko Party considered the transfer of mandates of deputies of the Pskov City Duma, the Assembly of Deputies of the Novorzhevsky District and the Assembly of Deputies of the Pustoshkinsky District, which became vacant in connection with the election of Arthur Gaiduk as an MP of the Pskov Regional Assembly in single-member constituency No. 2, Sofia Pugazheva as head of Novorzhevsky district and Svetlana Vasilkova as head of the Pustoshkinsky district.
Photo: Dmitry Permyakov
Dmitry Permyakov, lawyer and Deputy Chairman of the regional branch of the party, and Tatyana Fedorova, member of the Bureau of the Regional Council of the Yabloko party and teacher of economics and management, competed for the mandate of a deputy of the Pskov City Duma.
The team of the Novgorod Yabloko organised and conducted a series of pickets against the imports of garbage from Moscow and St. Petersburg into other regions. The protest action was held in Novgorod and Okulovka.
Anna Cherepanova, Chairperson of the Novgorod branch of Yabloko and MP in the City Duma of Novgorod, noted that the Novgorod region risks becoming a landfill for Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Activists of the Tatarstan branch of Yabloko conducted a series of one-person pickets, that do not require a permission from the authorities, in support of defendants in politically motivated criminal cases instituted as part of the so-called the “Moscow riots” case when people protested against non-registration of opposition candidates in the Moscow parliamentary election. The action was held in the centre of Kazan. During a series of pickets, party members and supporters demanded the release of those deprived of their liberty and accused in participation in the “mass riots” on 27 July, 2019, as well as drop charges against them and close criminal cases.
On Monday, 23 September, Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova, will arrive in St. Petersburg to meet with the party’s municipal deputies who won the election.
Following the results of the elections of 8 September, Yabloko received representation in 31 municipal districts of St. Petersburg, 81 candidates nominated or supported by Yabloko got their mandates.
In two districts – Liteyny and Vladimirsky – Yabloko has a majority: 11 municipal deputies out of 20 and 12 deputies out of 20 deputies, respectively. The party formed large fractions in the Smolninskoye municipal district (seven deputies) and Malaya Okhta (eight deputies).
Photo: Sergei Mitrokhin, Daria Besedina, Yevgeny Bunimovich and Maxim Kruglov.
Yevgeny Bunimovich, Deputy of the Moscow City Duma from the Yabloko party and Honored Teacher of Russia, will head the Commission on Education in the Moscow parliament.
Photo: Boris Misnik, Jan Raczynski and Emilia Slabunova
Today, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow decided not to consider the claim of the Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova against the Public Prosecutor General’s Office and the Karelian Public Prosecutor’s Office on checking the legality of the excavations of the graves of the victims of Stalin’s reprisals by the Russian Military Historical Society in Sandarmokh, due to the fact that the Public Prosecutor General’s Office had not submitted its objections. Slabunova file a lawsuit on 3 July.
Statement by the St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko, 18.09.2019
The St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko does not recognise the election of the Governor of St. Petersburg as having taken place. It was nothing more than an act of appointing [acting Governor] Alexander Beglov, sent to our city by President Vladimir Putin, [as Governor]. The procedure when the strongest competitors of a candidate from the party in power are removed from participation by different ways and means cannot be called elections, and the declared winner is not an elected Governor. We consider Alexander Beglov to be the same appointee as he was before.
Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, left the conference hall of the St. Petersburg parliament before the start of the ceremony of inauguration of Alexander Beglov as Governor of St. Petersburg.
Yelena Vakhtina, deputy from the Yabloko party, formed a faction in the Council of Deputies of the Central Region. The goal of the faction is to implement the Healthy Changes programme for the Chelyabinsk.
Maxim Kruglov, deputy of the Moscow City Duma from the Yabloko party, addressed Valentin Gorbunov, head of the Moscow Electoral Commission, during taking the oath. Kruglov blamed Gorbunov on the reprisals against those protesting in the streets for fair elections and said that the Yabloko faction would seek his resignation.
Olga Pokrovskaya indicated in her dissenting opinion, that the elections were held with numerous violations of the law.
Press Release, 17.09.2019
Olga Pokrovskaya, member of the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission with a casting vote from Yabloko, expressed her dissenting opinion, noting that she disagreed with the decision of the St. Petersburg Electoral Commission to approve the results of the St. Petersburg gubernatorial elections.
The brochure contains investigations, analytics, and an account of the centre activities.
Press Release, 17.09.2019
Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre party launched a report on its work in 2018. The brochure presents investigations, examinations and analytics prepared by the Centre.
Lawyers of the St.Petersburg branch of Yabloko will challenge the results of municipal elections in the city in 12 electoral districts where they were rigged. At least 24 mandates were stolen from Yabloko only through direct substitution of reals bulletins by fakes and subsequent recounting of ballots.
The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow will consider the lawsuit of Yabloko Chair Emilia Slabunova against the Public Prosecutor General and the Prosecutor General’s Office of Karelia for their refusal to examine on merit the excavations of the graves of the victims of Stalin’s reprisals by the Russian Military Historical Society in Sandarmokh.
However, at least 24 mandates were stolen from Yabloko
Press Release, 16.09.2019
The St. Petersburg municipal campaign was successful for Yabloko: 95 candidates who were nominated or supported by the party were elected municipal deputies. The party received a majority in two districts (Liteiny and Vladimirsky), as well as the largest factions in the Smolninskoye and Malaya Okhta municipalities. In addition, the Yabloko team received 13 seats out of 20 in the Murino municipal district (50.000 residents), which is located on the border of the Leningrad Region and St. Petersburg.
Yabloko’s Anti-Corruption Policy Centre found out that the fund that rendered support to Valeria Kasamara, candidate to the Moscow City Duma, received a grant from the Mayor of Moscow.
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky, head of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St.Peterburg, with elected deputies of the Vladimirsky municipal district of St.Petersburg
The electoral commissions of the municipalities of the Vladimirsky district and the Liteiny district confirmed the victory of Yabloko. The voting results of the electoral commissions could not be drawn up for several days. In the Vladimirsky region, the victory of Yabloko was confirmed only after a voters gathering, the party received 12 mandates out of 20, the following candidates were elected deputies: Yelena Andrusenko, Yevgeny Toporov, Alexander Koretsky, Valery Shaposhnikov, Denis Tikhonenko, Dmitry Prytkov, Vitaly Bovar, Elizaveta Silayeva, Ilya Stadnik , Irina Gaysina, Denis Smirnykh and Denis Lugovsky.
